Shades of the prison house : a history of incarceration in the British Isles /
Shades of the Prison House explores the history of imprisonment in the British Isles from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Over the centuries, prisons - from castle dungeons to 'lockups' to 'penitentiaries' to gaols - have changed radically in name, conditions, attributes an...
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| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY :
Boydell Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- In the beginning, 600-1500
- Squalor caceris, 1500-1750
- Experimentation with imprisonment, 1750-1863
- Punish and be damned, 1863-1895
- The Age of Enlightenment, 1895-1965
- Safe and secure?, 1965-2018.